Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 81.002 · Chapter 81. SEXUAL EXPLOITATION BY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDER
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION CAUSE OF ACTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A mental health services provider is liable to a patient or former patient of the mental health services provider for damages for sexual exploitation if the patient or former patient suffers, directly or indirectly, a physical, mental, or emotional injury caused by, resulting from, or arising out of:
(1) sexual contact between the patient or former patient and the mental health services provider;
(2) sexual exploitation of the patient or former patient by the mental health services provider; or
(3) therapeutic deception of the patient or former patient by the mental health services provider.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 573, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.81.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 81.002. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Civil Practice and Remedies Code
- Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 81.003LIABILITY OF EMPLOYER.Printed as Section 81.002
- Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 81.005DEFENSES.Printed as Section 81.002 or 81.003
- Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 81.009LIMITATIONS.Printed as Section 81.002 or 81.003
- Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 81.010INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AGAINST GOVERNMENTAL UNITS.Printed as Section 81.002(1)
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